Lewell Lodge
- Date:
- 4 Jul 2002
- Location:
- Lewell Lodge, West Knighton, West Dorset, Dorset
- Reference:
- IOE01/07673/35
- Type:
- Photograph (Digital)
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
SY 78 NW WEST KNIGHTON
6/87 Lewell Lodge
26.1.56 II
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Detached house in grounds with Gothic detailing. c.1796 for Adair Hawkins and extended shortly afterwards. Brick walls, mostly rendered in stucco. Slate roofs, with gable ends. Gable stacks.
Plan: rectangular Georgian plan with a central through hall containing staircase, and two rooms to each side. Two storeys with cellars and attics. 3 windows, sashes with pointed heads, marginal glazing bars and cross bars, wooden cills and separate returned labels over each window. Porch entrance at centre, 2 leaf plank doors in a pointed archway. Returned labels over. East gable wall has a 2 storey canted bay window, 1 : 3 : 1 light with the same detailing. North east wing added early C19, 3 light window to ground floor and two 2 light windows to first floor, same gothic detailing.
French window on gable end. Interior: the hall staircase has cusped tracery between the balusters and there are stained glass shields of arms in two of the windows; otherwise the fittings are in the ordinary classical style of the period and include some original decorated iron fire grates. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p.137 (6) Hutchins II, 500).
Listing NGR: SY7321888493
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1766 IOE Records taken by Andrew Salmon; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Rev Andrew Salmon. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Salmon, Andrew
Rights Holder: Salmon, Andrew
Brick, Render, Slate, Stucco, Georgian Detached House, Monument (By Form), House, Domestic, Dwelling, Garden, Agriculture And Subsistence, Land Use Site, Gardens Parks And Urban Spaces
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